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London Tummy. After that it is back to the hotel for coffee, brewed to order in little brass pots right in the room. Indeed, the hotel itself may be Arab-owned: the Royal Kensington, the Park Tower and the fabled Dorchester have all been bought by Middle Eastern investors-the Dorchester for a cool $15.9 million. For those who are bothered by a touch of London tummy, help awaits at expensive Wellington Hospital in St. John's Wood, where the amenities include Arab interpreters and closed-circuit TV featuring Arab-language movies made in Cairo...
Died. Daniel Gearhart, 34, convicted mercenary from Kensington, Md., who served three days with defeated anti-Communist forces in the Angolan civil war last year. Gearhart, along with three Britons, was executed in Angola, following a "war crimes" trial of 13 white mercenaries, in spite of pleas for the condemned by President Gerald Ford and Queen Elizabeth...
...accused in a 139-part indictment of more than 100 assorted crimes against the Angolan people during the recent civil war. Ten of the defendants were British, including the notorious Costas Georgiu, 25, also known as "Colonel Callan." In addition there were three Americans−Daniel Gearhart, 34, of Kensington, Md., Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., and Argentine-born Gustavo ("Gus") Grillo, 27, a resident of Jersey City...
...urged Margaret and Tony to go their own ways as discreetly as possible. Friends found that entertaining the two, when they did get together, could be painful. Margaret had become especially fond of gin-and-tonics. She would at times airily ignore Tony. When he invited guests to Kensington Palace, she would breeze through the room, stopping long enough only to cast a chill on the festivities. To many Britons who had learned to love the impish princess in her younger days, she had become an imperious snob who performed her chores disinterestedly. "We got all of the noblesse," groused...
Doting Parents. One major reason that Margaret and Tony might have agreed to a simple separation is their concern for their children. For all the couple's differences, they are both doting parents. Lord Linley and Lady Sarah will continue to live in Kensington Palace. Lord Snowdon will have unlimited visiting privileges...